Business of Sport: Barry Hearn on 40 years in the industry & what's next

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The Athletic

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman & The Athletic's Matt Slater are joined by Barry Hearn, a man who is a legend in the business of sport, to share what he has learnt in a 40 year career promoting a range of sports including football, boxing, snooker & darts. In a wide-ranging discussion, Hearn compares the running of football clubs to other industries. He also spoke about the pros and cons of gambling sponsorship and how boxing much embrace the evolving new audience that has been attracted to the sport by the likes of social media star Jake Paul & KSI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	Hey Barry.
0:04.0	Good to see you boys.
0:05.0	It's just waking up, Chapman, by look of you.
0:08.0	You know, you're just...
0:09.0	Extremely.
0:11.0	I've just had a shower bury that's my best hair.
0:15.0	Listen, we don't have that problem with a young Slater, do we?
0:20.0	So it's okay.
0:22.0	No, we don't, no, no.
0:24.0	Brilliant, thanks for doing this, Barry.
0:26.0	I know the athletic well.
0:28.0	I knew when they, I knew the boys when they first started,
0:30.0	and I know a lot of the key people that join them at the beginning they I don't know what
0:35.2	they meant that we do too for because they do set a very very high standard of journalistic approach.
0:40.3	Yeah so well done you.
0:43.0	In detail I'm a comrade, you have done an unbelievable job.
0:48.0	Well that is the voice of Barry Hearn talking to myself Mark Chapman and Matt Slater.
0:59.1	The man has had a very very interesting career in boxing, darts, snooker, football to name just a few.
1:08.9	And the whole of this week's business of Sport Pod here on the athletic is our chat with Barryhead.
1:19.2	Give us a bit of background then for people who who aren't necessarily the UK audience who don't know your your
1:25.6	backstory. It's a pretty simple rags to richest Cinderella story that I think
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